Re:sacramento
[email protected]
In a message dated 3/7/2002 1:56:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
which days yet. AND I'm organizing the talent show -- with Jocelyn and Dan -
the talent show was really cool last year - Sandra even played a recorder
duet with herself.
--pam
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[email protected] writes:
> Dan and I and another couple of parents not on this list have a spot toI'm doing two sessions on Joyful Math or something like that. Don't know
> discuss the benefits of video games. I need to get that organized soon.
> Not
> today. Again, I don't know which day yet. So maybe, Pam, Saturday would
> be
> better. But soon the schedule will be set.
which days yet. AND I'm organizing the talent show -- with Jocelyn and Dan -
the talent show was really cool last year - Sandra even played a recorder
duet with herself.
--pam
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[email protected]
In a message dated 3/7/2002 1:56:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
too far and at least they have hot showers.
I'd spring for a room if at all possible, though, because it is so great to
have a base of operations - someplace to hang wet swimsuits and a place to
keep a cooler full of food (the hotel food is expensive and the restaurant is
REALLY slow). The conference hotel room rate is only about $80 a night - this
is a pretty snazzy hotel and that is a really really good rate. The
conference registration is way cheaper, too, if you're an HSC member and if
you register really early. You might send a note to: conference@... to be
on the mailing list.
--pamS
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[email protected] writes:
> The other possibility isWe camped at the KAO in West Sacramento one year. It is across town - but not
> to camp somewhere within a reasonable driving distance away.
> If anyone knows of anywhere to camp, could you pass along the
> info to me, thanks.
too far and at least they have hot showers.
I'd spring for a room if at all possible, though, because it is so great to
have a base of operations - someplace to hang wet swimsuits and a place to
keep a cooler full of food (the hotel food is expensive and the restaurant is
REALLY slow). The conference hotel room rate is only about $80 a night - this
is a pretty snazzy hotel and that is a really really good rate. The
conference registration is way cheaper, too, if you're an HSC member and if
you register really early. You might send a note to: conference@... to be
on the mailing list.
--pamS
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[email protected]
In a message dated 3/9/2002 8:23:22 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
NO LONGER have parent drop-offs - with parents signing kids in and out. The
reason is that then the workshop presenters, who want to go on to see the
rest of the conference and who have kids of their own to take care of, end up
sitting with other people's kids when the other people forget to come get
them from a workshop.
We don't do that anymore. Parents are responsible for their own kids. This is
the same message I gave last year when I was responsible for the conference.
No changes. The rules say: "Children must be accompanied by a responsible
adult at all times."
In practice this means that YOU, the parent, are responsible for your child.
You cannot dump them at a workshop and leave and expect the workshop
presenter to babysit them until you decide to come back and get them. If they
need to go to the bathroom during a workshop, they'll just leave, and if they
don't come back, nobody is going to notice. If your child is disruptive or
destructive during the workshop, there will be nobody there to give
individual attention to your child and we'll ask you to be in the room with
him/her from then on. This applies to children of any age. If you have full
confidence that your child is okay to leave a workshop whenever, to not be
disruptive while there, to handle it if stung by a bee and there is no adult
to treat them, to go to the bathroom or get a drink without an adult keeping
track of them, to find their way around the hotel, to not be upset if they
have trouble finding you, to ask for help if needed, to stay out of the way
of automobiles, to stay out of the fountains and the lake, etc., then you
being on the premises might be enough. If conference staff has to come
looking for you because your child has a problem, then you'll be reminded
that children are supposed to be accompanied by a responsible adult. It is
not "responsible" if the child can't find you when they need you. I always
made sure my child was going to a workshop with a buddy - and that they were
clear that they were expected to stay together. I have their schedule and I
check on them regularly. Not a problem. When they were little, either myself
or another adult would take charge of a group of kids - taking turns watching
over them.
I wish we could assume all parents & kids would act responsibly, and not need
to have this requirement as a backup, but they don't.
--pam
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[email protected] writes:
> Okay, I was specifically told that this was *not* okay. It was probablyI wrote that example on the HSC list. It was part of an explanation of why we
> on the HSC list, but it may have been at a northern California HSC
> get-together we went to. Nope (checking archives for June 11 and 12 of
> 2001), it was on the list, and all of the official HCS people who posted
> agreed that each child needed to have a responsible adult with them at
> each workshop they attended. In support of this, an example was given of
> two children who were dropped off and not picked up at the end of a
> workshop. It was suggested that people (even people posting who had
> responsible 9 and 11 year old kids) bring a designated sitter to
> accompany he kids to workshops. No one said anything about your
> individual child being responsible enough to do anything independently,
> unless they had hit the magic age of 13. So if things have changed,
> that's wonderful, but the message last year was different.
NO LONGER have parent drop-offs - with parents signing kids in and out. The
reason is that then the workshop presenters, who want to go on to see the
rest of the conference and who have kids of their own to take care of, end up
sitting with other people's kids when the other people forget to come get
them from a workshop.
We don't do that anymore. Parents are responsible for their own kids. This is
the same message I gave last year when I was responsible for the conference.
No changes. The rules say: "Children must be accompanied by a responsible
adult at all times."
In practice this means that YOU, the parent, are responsible for your child.
You cannot dump them at a workshop and leave and expect the workshop
presenter to babysit them until you decide to come back and get them. If they
need to go to the bathroom during a workshop, they'll just leave, and if they
don't come back, nobody is going to notice. If your child is disruptive or
destructive during the workshop, there will be nobody there to give
individual attention to your child and we'll ask you to be in the room with
him/her from then on. This applies to children of any age. If you have full
confidence that your child is okay to leave a workshop whenever, to not be
disruptive while there, to handle it if stung by a bee and there is no adult
to treat them, to go to the bathroom or get a drink without an adult keeping
track of them, to find their way around the hotel, to not be upset if they
have trouble finding you, to ask for help if needed, to stay out of the way
of automobiles, to stay out of the fountains and the lake, etc., then you
being on the premises might be enough. If conference staff has to come
looking for you because your child has a problem, then you'll be reminded
that children are supposed to be accompanied by a responsible adult. It is
not "responsible" if the child can't find you when they need you. I always
made sure my child was going to a workshop with a buddy - and that they were
clear that they were expected to stay together. I have their schedule and I
check on them regularly. Not a problem. When they were little, either myself
or another adult would take charge of a group of kids - taking turns watching
over them.
I wish we could assume all parents & kids would act responsibly, and not need
to have this requirement as a backup, but they don't.
--pam
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[email protected]
In a message dated 3/9/2002 8:23:22 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
presenters had strong preferences about ages they wanted to work with - I
said this on the HSC list last year and it was MY decision to put the age
guidelines into the program.
--pam
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[email protected] writes:
> There was no theaterAgain, the ages were guidelines - in this case because the workshop
> workshop offered for "kids". At that time she'd already participated in
> theater groups with teens, and was (and still is) passionate about All
> Things Theater, and a friend who was a teen was planning to go to that
> workshop and they wanted to go together....
presenters had strong preferences about ages they wanted to work with - I
said this on the HSC list last year and it was MY decision to put the age
guidelines into the program.
--pam
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